Category Archives: suffering

Posted on March 11, 2022 by little wren

May the frightened cease to be afraidAnd those bound be freed;May the powerless find power,And may people think of benefiting eachother. For as long as space remains,For as long as sentient beings remain,Until then may I too remainTo dispel the … Continue reading →

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Posted on July 7, 2020 by little wren

Some things cannot be fixed; they can only be carried. ~Megan Devine

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Posted on April 25, 2020 by little wren

Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it. ~Maya Angelou

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Posted on September 15, 2019 by little wren

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on … Continue reading →

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Posted on May 28, 2018 by little wren

We all have a room within us, in which we keep the things we have loved deeply, intensely, passionately, but lost forever. My room is full of you. Just you. ~Nikita Gill

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Posted on January 4, 2018 by little wren

My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness. ~Virginia Woolf

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Posted on October 19, 2017 by little wren

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I’m neurotic as hell. I’ll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. ~Sylvia Plath

Posted in challenges, choice, confusion, identity, life, longing, nonconformity, passion, restlessness, seeking, suffering, Sylvia Plath, uncertainty | Leave a comment

Posted on September 7, 2017 by little wren

Every act of cruelty towards any creature is contrary to human dignity. ~Pope Francis

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Posted on September 4, 2017 by little wren

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process. ~C.S. Lewis (A Grief Observed)

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Posted on August 31, 2017 by little wren

The wider you open your eyes, the darker the world becomes. ~Bianca Nicole Valle

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